Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Michael Pierce Brooks was a minor-league baseball player in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was right-handed as a batter, pitcher and outfielder, stood at 5-foot-10 and weighed about 160 pounds. Brooks was named the San Gabriel Valley Sertoma Club Baseball Player of the Year in 1968. He never rose above the minors, playing his last game in 1975 at the age of 25.
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Michael Brooks was drafted by the Minnesota Twins as a 9th-round pick in 1968, entering the minor-league system with the GCL Twins in that year. Brooks played for St. Cloud in 1969, the Wisconsin Rapids in 1970, Lynchburg in 1971 and Tacoma in 1972 and 1973. He was then traded out of the Minnesota minors and into the Cleveland minors, where he played for San Antonio and Oklahoma City in his last two seasons.
